Ch. 12

Lou Ai's car was covered with black anti-reconnaissance windows. She curled her fingers, lowered her eyes, took out the crystal cores from her space, wiped them one by one, and stuffed them into her mouth. At this time, she didn't know what she could do. Only by making herself stronger would it seem less boring.

The army acted quickly and with clear division of labor.

At this rate, they should be able to reach the supermarket by the evening.

"Knock knock." Suddenly a soldier came and knocked on her car window.
　　

Lou Ai turned down the mirror, checked her eyes, and adjusted the little bear hair band on her head. She had just opened the box this morning, it was clean and very cute. She opened the car window and smiled sweetly, "What's wrong?"
　

"It's like this. I noticed that you are a vehicle that was just added by Chengnan Street. You need to register." The young soldier was not very old, only in his twenties. "Don't worry, it's just a routine registration. Just tell us your ID number, name, and home address. Now is a special period, so we won't ask to check your ID. Are you alone? Then, you need to tell us where your family members are, whether they have become zombies or something else."
　　

"Okay, my name is Lou Ai, my ID is 695140208sJ, I live in No. 609, Building A, South Garden, I came here to find food after the end of the world, my family is a reconstituted family, before the end of the world, my father and stepmother took my brother to travel to H City, my stepmother didn't want to take me, so I'm alone here." Lou Ai said obediently, "My father left the car at home, but don't worry, I have a driver's license, I passed the test, I just didn't bring it when I came out."
　　

"Okay, I understand." The soldier looked at Lou Ai's slightly childish face, and his tone softened a lot. There were already a lot of records on the tablet in his hand. He continued to ask, "Do you have any wounds? Those with wounds must report them. We have a team doctor who can treat the wounds in time. You have also spent ten days here. You should know that in this world, a small wound can be fatal. I hope you can report it truthfully so that we won't be unable to rescue you in time."
　　

"I don't have any wounds on my body. I wrapped myself up tightly when I went out these days and didn't dare let the zombies get close to me."
　　

"Okay, one last question. Have you awakened any special powers after the Purple Moon?" the little soldier asked as usual.

As soon as Lou Ai nodded, she saw the little soldier's eyes light up. She said, "I can control zombies, but not too many, probably about eight."
　　

"Okay, okay, thank you for your cooperation." The little soldier nodded, turned around and was about to go back to report the situation.
　　

"Wait, brother, thank you for your hard work. Are you going to the Jingge Shopping Mall on Xiangyang Road?" Lou Ai took out two pieces of chocolate from her backpack and stuffed them into the little soldier's hands.
　　

"Yes, the rescue work has already been done in the south. We'll go directly to the suburbs and get on the highway. We'll probably spend the night in the mall." The soldier declined for a while, but still took the chocolate and told her all the information he could.
　　

"I have a few friends in the mall. Can I have them join me?"
　　

"Of course, we will arrange registration for everyone at that time. Just ask them to tell the soldier who arranges registration."
　　

"That's great." Lou Ai nodded with a smile, "But, are you the only search and rescue team in such a large urban area?"
　　

"Of course not. We are only the first search and rescue team. There will be the second and third search and rescue teams soon." The soldier smiled and said evasively, "Now all the troops have been mobilized. Basically, every city has its own garrison, air force, navy and army. We have enough manpower. In the past few days, we were not free to rescue citizens because we were reorganizing the army. We also have enough food and ammunition. The country will definitely not abandon any citizen."

　　

"Okay, I got it, thank you." Lou Ai thanked him and watched the little soldier walk to the back and close the car window.
　　

"Woo woo." Two faint baby cries were heard in front of the army, along with light conversations and faint breathing sounds coming from all around. The back of her car had already been blocked by private cars that had caught up with it. She had not been close to so many humans for a long time. Lou Ai leaned her head against the car window, and her hearing, which had become several times more acute, extended out. She took the opportunity to feel whether there were any humans in front of her whom she could control.
　　

The branches of the feeling were quietly hooked, it really happened!

Lou Ai sat up straight. The zombie who was seducing her was very weak, so weak that Lou Ai's consciousness told her that there was no benefit in controlling this zombie.
　　

But it is a zombie after all, and the source of the virus it carries with it is definitely more "powerful" than that of humans.
　　

Lou Ai looked around at the humans in front of her. She opened the car window and leaned her head out from the side of the car to make her senses clearer. Her consciousness extended along the crowd around her, all the way to the people queuing at the gate of the community, the soldiers who were writing furiously to take notes, and finally she felt the hungry consciousness of the zombies in the arms of the soldier standing next to her. Lou Ai narrowed her eyes.
　　

The soldier was holding a very small baby bundle in his arms. The child was probably only one year old and his teeth hadn't even grown yet. She didn't know what the army was doing with him.
　　

Lou Ai tightly gripped the car door handle. The baby zombie was struggling in the soldier's arms. The fluffy coral fleece blanket with a cartoon lamb printed on it was bulging from the kicking of the baby's little feet. The baby's strength was so small that it didn't even have the strength to kick off a corner of the blanket.
　　

"Brother, wait a moment." Lou Ai saw the soldier who had just registered her walking over and hurriedly called out to him.
　　

"What's going on?" The soldier asked curiously, "If you want to go to the toilet, I'm afraid you have to wait until we get to the Jingge Shopping Mall over there."
　　

"It's not that. I just told you that my superpower is to control zombies. Just now when I used my superpower, I found that the baby in your leader's arms was a zombie. Is this okay?" Lou Ai asked.

　　

The little soldier glanced at the zombie baby over there awkwardly: "Don't tell anyone about this, and don't cause a riot. We found this baby in an empty house. We pieced together the situation, which is roughly like this: a family of four, the father went out to find supplies, and after being injured, he turned into a zombie at home and bit the mother. After that, the mother killed the father, and after she couldn't control herself and turned into a zombie, she bit the child and fell down the building while struggling.

We were attracted by the zombies that fell down. When we got there, we saw a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. The brother had turned into a zombie and was gnawing at his sister's arm, but his strength was not strong enough to break the skin. The sister was being watched by a female soldier and would be sent to a special orphanage when the time came."
　　

"We were originally going to kill this little zombie, but we received instructions from above that such a small zombie is a good research material."

　　

The little soldier touched his head and looked very embarrassed. He didn't look at Lou Ai, avoiding her gaze and looking a little disappointed: "It will be fine when the zombie vaccine is made. Our country will definitely make a zombie vaccine before those private and foreign institutions."
　　

Lou Ai patted the little soldier on the shoulder and consoled him with a smile: "That's right."
　　

The young soldier nodded, took the tablet and went back to report.
　　

Lou Ai closed the car window again, leaned back in the chair with her head tilted back, and looked at the experimental materials.
　　

After the army took in the people from the two communities, they sent people to search the communities twice. The long convoy was doubled in size, with soldiers guarding the front and back. Not many zombies jumped up, and they were shot to death by the soldiers on the vehicles. They drove safely to the Jingge Supermarket on Xiangyang Road.

When approaching Jingge Supermarket, the military broadcast sounded again, and this time the registration gathering place was changed to the first floor of the comprehensive supermarket.

When they arrived at the comprehensive supermarket, the army entered the first floor of the supermarket first to clear the area. Gunshots rang out one after another, and along with the gunshots came white snowflakes that fell down. The snowflakes mixed with small hail fell on the cars, making crackling sounds.
　　

"Why is it snowing?"
　　

"This horrible weather is really making life miserable. Cover Xiaodi with the blanket in the car. Don't let him catch a cold. Even if he catches a cold, he can't get a shot now."
　　

"F#ck, how can we travel in this weather? It was still sunny at noon."
　　

Lou Ai packed some candies and bread and put them in her backpack. As soon as she opened the car door, she heard people around her rubbing their hands, stamping their feet and cursing the weather. She reached out to catch the falling ice crystals. The small hailstones fell on her hands and gave her a cool feeling. It seemed that there was no snow when the army picked people up in the last life!
　　

Maybe it was because the time interval was too long and she remembered it wrongly.
　　

Just as she was thinking about it, the zombies in the supermarket were cleared out. With the soldiers maintaining order, everyone walked into the supermarket in order from the outside to the inside. The toy area on the first floor lobby that originally housed claw machines and dance mats was cleared by the army, leaving a large area to accommodate the residents. Most of the residents found some thick clothes to spread on the ground, gathered in groups of three or four, and sat down on the ground.
　　

"Girl, you are alone, please sit over here." An old lady invited Lou Ai. Seeing that there was a relatively large vacant space over there, Lou Ai nodded. Without spreading any clothes, she sat down on the ground. She did not bring a blanket when she came out, so it was not convenient to take things from the space now.

"Hey, why did you sit down directly? Come and sit with me. Next time, just take off the seat cover from your car and spread it on the ground." The old lady said enthusiastically.

"Thank you, Auntie." Lou Ai said, her expression froze, and she looked towards the entrance. Just now, she suddenly felt a strong sense of malice at the door.

The malice lasted only a brief moment before disappearing.
　　

At the back of the comprehensive supermarket, a dense layer of frost formed on the iron frame where the air-conditioning exhaust fan was placed. Small hailstones fell on the frost and broke into pieces instantly. A yellow-haired zombie stood steadily on the exhaust fan. The rotten flesh on his face was scratched and put back on his face by his long purple-black nails. His pupils the size of mung beans were filled with stiffness, and he roared rapidly.
　　

After a long time, one, two... four zombies gathered under the exhaust fan. With ferocious faces, they roared at the group of soldiers chasing them, twisting their bodies and rushing towards the soldiers excitedly: "Roar!"

"Bang!" "Bang" "Bang bang." Gunshots rang out.

The yellow-haired zombie looked coldly for a while, turned around and ran away, rushing into the second-floor window where the soldiers could not see.

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